Re: Bluetooth turned on?

[Dieter Baron <dillo%danbala.tuwien.ac.at@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:20:28PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:08:02 +0100 (CET)
> Dieter Baron <dillo%danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > In article <20080123212309.59e37957%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> Steven wrote:
> > : The Bluetooth light is glowing on my laptop, which I assume means
> > that : the device is enabled and hence using power.  How can I
> > disable and/or : prevent that?  All of the bt variables default to
> > "NO" : in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and I don't change any of them in
> > rc.conf. : Running 'btconfig ubt0 down' doesn't turn off the light.
> > This is : 4.99.49/amd64 from Monday.
> > 
> >   What kind of laptop is it?
> 
> A T61.
> > 
> >   On my IBM Thinkpad T42p the light is on, even if I don't have a
> > device driver for the bluetooth adapter compiled into the kernel.
> > IIUC you can turn it off using the new thinkpad@acpi driver.
> > 
> Hmm -- any clue how to?  I don't even see a man(4) page for the
> thinkpad driver, let alone one for (8).

  Sorry, no.  I thought via sysctl, but reading the source, it looks
like it can only be done via hotkeys.

  Fn+F5 seems to work on my notebook, even without the driver (at
least it toggles the Bluetooth light).

                                                yours,
                                                dillo